The Israeli occupation authorities announced, today, Saturday, the sixth batch of detainees within the ceasefire agreement.

According to the Prisoners and Freed Prisoners Affairs Authority and the Prisoners Club, the sixth batch includes 36 detainees sentenced to life imprisonment, and 333 detainees from the Gaza Strip, who were arrested by the Israeli occupation forces during their aggression on the Strip after October 7, 2023.

According to the list of names, 29 of the released prisoners are from the West Bank, 7 from occupied Jerusalem and its suburbs, while 24 prisoners were deported outside the country.

The occupation forces turned the area near Ofer prison into a closed military zone, prevented the gathering of detainees' families, and fired live ammunition and tear gas canisters at them.

Hundreds of citizens and relatives of detainees gathered since the early morning hours in front of the Ramallah Cultural Palace and the Mahmoud Darwish Museum Square in the city of Ramallah, to welcome the prisoners who were released from Ofer Prison, raising the Palestinian flag.

Citizen Maryam Awis, the mother of the detainees Abdul Karim and Hassan Rateb Younis Awis from Jenin camp, expressed her mixed feelings about the release of her two sons, as the occupation released Hassan (47 years old) to the West Bank, while Abdul Karim (54 years old) was deported abroad.

She stated that the occupation forces arrested her son Abdul Karim on March 29, 2002, and sentenced him to life imprisonment 6 times, and arrested her son Hassan on April 8, 2002, and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

She told WAFA that she had been waiting impatiently for her sons to be released after 23 years of detention, during which the family had suffered, as one of her sons and one of her grandchildren were martyred, and the occupation had demolished the family home twice.

She added: "I wish they would be released and return to their home in Jenin camp, instead of one of them being deported abroad, as her son Hassan will not be allowed to travel to meet his brother Abdul Karim, while she will try to travel to meet him."

After his release, Hassan said it was a moment mixed with pain, as he wished that his brother Abdul Karim would be released to the West Bank and not deported.

The suffering of the two brothers, Awis, represented by the release of one of them and the deportation of the other, is similar to the suffering of the brothers Musa, Ibrahim, and Khalil Ahmed Salem Sarahneh from the town of Silwan in occupied Jerusalem, and residents of the Deheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem.

The occupation released Musa (63 years old), who had been detained since June 28, 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment, and Ibrahim (55 years old), who had been detained since May 23, 2002 and sentenced to life imprisonment, to their home in the Deheishe camp, while their brother Khalil (45 years old), who had been detained since July 10, 2002, was deported.

After his release, Musa said that he was arrested when he was 41 years old and was released when he was 63 years old, noting that his feeling of freedom was indescribable despite the bitterness of the years he spent in the occupation’s prisons.

He pointed out that he and his brother Ibrahim were released, but he still does not know the fate of his brother Khalil.